I'm sure that's the same time my brother carried them.
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I'm sure that's the same time my brother carried them.
This Model 1902 S&W and shoulder holster belonged to my paternal grandfather. In the early 20th Century, he owned a dry goods store in Crittenden, Kentucky, and used this gun and rig to walk his day's proceeds to the bank a few blocks away from the store. No maker's name on the holster.
That's way cool.
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I thought that black Brill looked like it would be appropriate for a small revolver. I was guessing a Colt Police Positive Special. If a Colt Police Positive seems too large then it's hard to say. A Colt New Pocket or Pocket Positive is really a Police Positive with an abbreviated grip frame. As far as I know the frame size is otherwise the same.
Had promised to take a photo or two today so here is the latest Brill to be acquired and for me personally, the most important vintage holster I have. It had belonged to an uncle I thought a lot of. It had always housed a Colt Artillery Model Single Action Army when I was a kid. My dad said that my uncle bought the Colt and the holster for $5 in 1948 while they were up in Oklahoma on a fishing trip.
A year ago I saw one of my "huntin' cousins" at a family get together and had asked him to bring along his dad's old Colt just for fun. As a kid I remember it and recall shooting it. Either the Colt Artillery Model .45 or a Smith & Wesson Model 15 also belonging to my uncle was the first handgun I ever fired one summer in 1968. I got to shoot both on two different occasions that summer. I hadn't seen the Colt since the very early 1980s. He brought it along and the holster too. I remember seeing the holster with the rawhide cord wrapped around it as a kid, but never noted the holster's maker or if the Artillery Model properly fit it.
A few weeks back my cousin and his wife came here for a weekend visit and he brought the old Colt and holster again. We were again looking at the Colt and holster when he said he was turning the holster over to me as I had a Colt with a barrel length that properly fit. I was touched by the gesture.
My commercial Colt Single Action Army .38-40 in my uncle's Brill holster with the other Brill Single Action Army holster next to it.
The holster when I saw it in March last year. As may be seen it was very dried out and needed attention. I still have the leather thong and am of a mind to put it back on the holster "just 'cause." It was present when I was a kid and won't hurt a thing to be kept on it that way.
While my cousin was in we went to the local gun club range and held a Span Am/Philippine Insurrection Colt revolver shoot-fest. His Artillery Model, my Colt Model 1901 .38, and my Colt Model 1909 .45.
All guns gave a good account of themselves on target. The .38 is a real wheezer, both revolver design and cartridge, but the two .45 caliber Colts are substantial.
Had promised to take a photo or two today so here is the latest Brill to be acquired and for me personally, the most important vintage holster I have. It had belonged to an uncle I thought a lot of. It had always housed a Colt Artillery Model Single Action Army when I was a kid. My dad said that my uncle bought the Colt and the holster for $5 in 1948 while they were up in Oklahoma on a fishing trip.
A year ago I saw one of my "huntin' cousins" at a family get together and had asked him to bring along his dad's old Colt just for fun. As a kid I remember it and recall shooting it. Either the Colt Artillery Model .45 or a Smith & Wesson Model 15 also belonging to my uncle was the first handgun I ever fired one summer in 1968. I got to shoot both on two different occasions that summer. I hadn't seen the Colt since the very early 1980s. He brought it along and the holster too. I remember seeing the holster with the rawhide cord wrapped around it as a kid, but never noted the holster's maker or if the Artillery Model properly fit it.
A few weeks back my cousin and his wife came here for a weekend visit and he brought the old Colt and holster again. We were again looking at the Colt and holster when he said he was turning the holster over to me as I had a Colt with a barrel length that properly fit. I was touched by the gesture.
My commercial Colt Single Action Army .38-40 in my uncle's Brill holster with the other Brill Single Action Army holster next to it.
The holster when I saw it in March last year. As may be seen it was very dried out and needed attention. I still have the leather thong and am of a mind to put it back on the holster "just 'cause." It was present when I was a kid and won't hurt a thing to be kept on it that way.
While my cousin was in we went to the local gun club range and held a Span Am/Philippine Insurrection Colt revolver shoot-fest. His Artillery Model, my Colt Model 1901 .38, and my Colt Model 1909 .45.
All guns gave a good account of themselves on target. The .38 is a real wheezer, both revolver design and cartridge, but the two .45 caliber Colts are substantial.
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jimgoldth
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I got this Audley holster just because it was old. The patent date was Mar. 3, 1908.
I got this older BIANCHI left hand holster to try the Cavalry Draw with my Great Western Sherriff model but soon gave up on the idea.
This older S.D.MYERS EL PASO, TEX. Patented Pat. No. 2092,222 Jordan Style Floral holster.
I got this older BIANCHI left hand holster to try the Cavalry Draw with my Great Western Sherriff model but soon gave up on the idea.
This older S.D.MYERS EL PASO, TEX. Patented Pat. No. 2092,222 Jordan Style Floral holster.
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Here's a 5" model 27-2 with a Heiser model 514 holster.
Regards,
turnerriver
Regards,
turnerriver
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stonebuster
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I only have a few vintage holsters but I do like them.
1 Smith and Wesson branded with a model 19.
2 Eubanks with a model 14.
3 Strong with a model 14.
4 Eubanks with my grandfathers High Standard.
5 Mixson with a model 15.
1 Smith and Wesson branded with a model 19.
2 Eubanks with a model 14.
3 Strong with a model 14.
4 Eubanks with my grandfathers High Standard.
5 Mixson with a model 15.
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jimgoldth
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The H.H.Heiser model 125 shoulder holster came in numerous sizes. I used to have a S&W Model 1913 type 2 .35 S&W. I found this Heiser model 125 that worked very well with the first S&W Semi Auto.
jimgoldth
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The Berns-Martin Holster is fast and protects the revolver. This 3" model 19-3 rides well in this late model holster.
The Bianchi model 27 is the next generation of the Berns-Martin Holster. This one for a 4" S&W N frame was my duty holster for a time.
The Bianchi model 27 is the next generation of the Berns-Martin Holster. This one for a 4" S&W N frame was my duty holster for a time.
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Here's a vintage holster - part of a complete rig. The Mauser S/42 Luger is dated 1936 over the chamber, and the holster is also dated 1936. This set was brought back to the U.S. as a WWII war trophy, and has been kept together evidently since 1936...
Interestingly, a 1935-dated Carl Heinichen (Dresden, Germany) holster recently sold at auction for $1,600! Another 1937-dated Heinichen example sold on eBay recently for $260.
Here's an archival photo of German soldiers practicing with their P.08 Lugers during WWII. They apparently mounted their holsters on the left side of their belts. You can barely see the top of one of these holsters on the left side of the closest man in the picture.
John
Interestingly, a 1935-dated Carl Heinichen (Dresden, Germany) holster recently sold at auction for $1,600! Another 1937-dated Heinichen example sold on eBay recently for $260.
Here's an archival photo of German soldiers practicing with their P.08 Lugers during WWII. They apparently mounted their holsters on the left side of their belts. You can barely see the top of one of these holsters on the left side of the closest man in the picture.
John
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The progenitor of all Threepersons-style holsters: Tom Threepersons' personal, well, Threepersons holster. It's believed to have been made for his shift from Army to blacksmith to El Paso P.D. during 1919; the year that its maker, saddler A.B. Egland, opened up in Douglas AZ. Douglas is the city in which Tom enlisted in the Army in 1916. His style was so-named by Sam Myres in his 1931 'Officers Equipment' catalog that marked Sam's entry into the holster business to save his company from the ravages of the Model T introduced 1908. According to his biographer Sandra Myres, it worked. Tom made at least part of his living selling his story through writers Cunningham and Arnold, and from royalties from Myres, and from promoting Booger Reds rodeo clothing when Booger himself died in 1924 (Booger was a rodeo exhibition rider who was so-named after he blew up a tree stump, and his face, with black powder). Tom was able to retired on a largish sum paid to him for the 1964 appearance of a TV movie named for him. A 1982 newspaper article quoted a friend of Tom's as saying "I've never known him to work".
His holster, shamelessly illustrated with a capgun in it (not least because it's a Nichols capgun)(also coincidentally, Tom's second wife Lorene was a Nichols by her first marriage).
Tom appearing for Booger Reds rodeo clothing, holding his 1909 Colt 45LC and with his Winchester of 1914
The Colt; he also had a 1905 Colt in 44 WCF that looks quite like the 1909. This one has had its frontstrap filed into a coarse checkering that runs onto the grips, leaving behind what looks like 'notches' on the edges of the ivory grip (the other side is pearl) and thereby leading to the myth that Tom had notched his pistol for 20 kills.
His Winchester made 1914 and delivered to El Paso in 1915, along with his S&W (finally got there) Triple Lock also of 1915.
I found his holster hiding in plain sight here on the Forum since 2008, when tiny images of it were posted at the death of its owner with it to be returned to its original (well, after Tom) owner's widow; which it was. I bought it from her when she wouldn't let me photograph it even by turnerriver in FL unless I bought it. That set in motion many things including turnerriver's and my book Holstory that includes a full chapter about Tom. It was when I bought it that it became worthwhile to ensure that it was 'our' Tom's holster of Texas; not the original Indian (and British citizen) rodeo winner of 1912 from whom our Tom took his name, who lived and died in Alberta Canada.
His holster, shamelessly illustrated with a capgun in it (not least because it's a Nichols capgun)(also coincidentally, Tom's second wife Lorene was a Nichols by her first marriage). Tom appearing for Booger Reds rodeo clothing, holding his 1909 Colt 45LC and with his Winchester of 1914 The Colt; he also had a 1905 Colt in 44 WCF that looks quite like the 1909. This one has had its frontstrap filed into a coarse checkering that runs onto the grips, leaving behind what looks like 'notches' on the edges of the ivory grip (the other side is pearl) and thereby leading to the myth that Tom had notched his pistol for 20 kills. His Winchester made 1914 and delivered to El Paso in 1915, along with his S&W (finally got there) Triple Lock also of 1915.I found his holster hiding in plain sight here on the Forum since 2008, when tiny images of it were posted at the death of its owner with it to be returned to its original (well, after Tom) owner's widow; which it was. I bought it from her when she wouldn't let me photograph it even by turnerriver in FL unless I bought it. That set in motion many things including turnerriver's and my book Holstory that includes a full chapter about Tom. It was when I bought it that it became worthwhile to ensure that it was 'our' Tom's holster of Texas; not the original Indian (and British citizen) rodeo winner of 1912 from whom our Tom took his name, who lived and died in Alberta Canada.
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Very nice of you to enquire
. I sold out of the 100 unit limited edition of Threepersons replicas some years ago; instead of continuing I improved his holster design and it is one of several designs (size for the SAA, size for the 1911, size for the DA Smiths) that I call Fighting Shells and that included, for the revolvers, a single cylinder recess next to the belt loop panel to slim down the revolver. Retention is improved over Tom's by adding, to the double welts, moulding around the ejector rod lever.
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A '59 3-inch?
Gotta be uncommon.
Neato!
Gotta be uncommon.
Neato!
No, it's a two inch but, fits in the holster real well.
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Oh.
My mistake. I was just eyeballing the dimensions.
Still all neato.
My mistake. I was just eyeballing the dimensions.
Still all neato.
The barrel stops right where my finger is pointing. Still a good fit and there is no wiggle.
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